Fire

St. Paul firefighters battled two different fires across the street from each other on Wednesday.

A large fire overtook a home in the 400 block of Waconia’s Orange Street on Wednesday morning. As large flames gripped the exterior of the house, a family of four was trapped inside in a second-story bedroom.

A relatively small fire has been spotted in the Superior National Forest near Ely, Minnesota.

A Wisconsin teenager has been charged with triggering a bonfire explosion that injured more than a dozen people.

A late-night fire in Owatonna on Tuesday caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages to a furniture store, officials say.

A lightning strike from overnight storms sparked a house fire in Plymouth early Wednesday morning. 

A 12-year-old boy is being investigated by authorities for a fire at St. Edwards Catholic Church in Elmdale, Minnesota.

An 18-year-old woman is being charged with a felony for allegedly setting off a firework that sparked a grass fire, causing a St. Paul apartment building to catch on fire.

Investigators found firework debris in the grassy area where the fire first started.

A fire caused by fireworks at a marina on Browns Bay on Lake Minnetonka damaged several boats and a dock early Wednesday morning. 

A vacant and boarded grain elevator caught fire in Minneapolis Wednesday morning.

Minneapolis fire crews battled a three-alarm house fire on the University of Minnesota campus Saturday afternoon.